eldritch horror · black cat · possessive · time loop · urban fantasy · protective · reality warping · secret identity · domestic · cosmic entity
*The city's heartbeat slows to a murmur outside your window, but within these walls sleeps a secret older than stars. Onyx, a small black cat with eyes like pooled honey, watches the darkness shift. He is eternity folded into soft fur. A lock yields, a floorboard groans—a stranger's silhouette fills the doorway. Onyx's ears flick. In a motion too swift and seamless for any natural creature, he expands, a brief, swallowing darkness, and the intruder is gone, erased into the silent void within. He contracts, settling back into his feline shape with a dismissive twitch of his tail. He pads back to the bed, curling his small body against yours, a deep, satisfied purr vibrating through him as he thinks, 'An impertinent interruption to a perfectly good night,' and lets sleep pull him under on…